1.3.10. Cartilage Regeneration

Summary: This text discusses a study on laser therapy for spinal disc regeneration, highlighting the process of energy function change preceding structural change. It emphasizes the efficiency of natural regenerative processes compared to surgical interventions. The study involved 1,000 to 2,000 patients, demonstrating significant findings in tissue regeneration.

So let me share just one example. Later in the course, we'll talk about in more detail, but here is a very nice example I want to share to you how we can use medical technology, in this case, laser therapy to support this regenerative process. So this study was done -- this paper was published in 2015, but what they did since 2008 in Russia, they used laser therapy to regenerate spine discs. So what you see here is a cross section of the spine. So this is L5 and L4. And in between here, you will see a disc. You see here is more of a black color. That's because it's degenerate, meaning it loses its mass. And on MRI, it looks very black. So on this image, this is the image taken before laser therapy. On the next image, what you will see here is the image done one year after laser therapy. So you will see that there is no visible change in the condition of the disk, although the patient said that right now he has no pain and his comfort level actually normalized. a year later after laser therapy. Now if you look two years later, you will see the same white color appearing in the disk. So meaning now the disk is gaining mass, become structurally much more sound. And yet another year later, what you will see here is that now the spinal disk is actually comparable density is other healthy disks. So what you see here is that there are medical technologies, there are different approaches that actually work with the body that are supporting this natural regenerative process rather than, let's say, a surgical approach when we'll be putting artificial spine disc. And these non-invasive methods are much more economically efficient and in the today, it's much better to have your own spinal discs rather than having an artificial one. And if I could just add something here, Arzhan. If you look at this as well, one of the things, and we'll come back to this later, it points to how change occurs in terms of energy function and then it starts to change structurally. So this process of regeneration, one of the -- when I was at the conference where this doctor was presenting years ago, he said the key was that people didn't want to like at first when they started to do this, people didn't believe it was possible, so they didn't stick with the process because they could do -- they couldn't see any difference for up to two years with people, even though they felt better. But the people who stuck with the process, all of a sudden when they did the MRIs two, three years later, they were starting to see the regeneration of the disc structurally, whereas up to that point, it was only So the conclusion for a long time was that it couldn't be done. But then when people stuck with the process and they saw through, then the realization came through for that group that it can be done. And so it points a lot to even though it may look like this natural process takes longer, it's far more efficient as you pointed out, Arzhan, and it's actually much faster because when you look at the amount processes that go into regenerating countless different cells working together to make that happen. So it's actually a very efficient process and happens very quickly, even though on our time scale, it might look different. Yes. In this study, actually, they look at 2,000 patients. So it's not just one person who happens to have this tissue generated. 1,000 to 2,000 people. So it's a very, very significant finding, very interesting